The World: Latest Stories

Author Bee Rowlatt read the work of Mary Wollstonecraft when she was a student and instantly became obsessed. So obsessed, in fact, that she set off on a journey to find out more about Wollstonecraft's life and legacy.

What does it take to feel invested in American politics? For this immigrant from Cameroon: Barack Obama.

The Dallas police chief has defended his decision to kill a suspected shooter with a bomb delivered by remote-controlled robot.

Portuguese fans are happy that a kid from Guinea Bissau chose to come to their country as an immigrant. And Éder is happy for what Portugal gave him: a chance to score a miraculous goal.

In Kenya, public protests against unlawful police killings are gathering pace, after the torture and murder of a lawyer and two other men allegedly at the hands of the police.

Do you remember the last time you were stung by a honeybee? Would you say that it felt “burning and corrosive?” Or more like “a flaming match head quenched first by lye, then by sulfuric acid?” Could you assign the pain a numerical value? A new book ranks the pain associated with bee and ant stings and provides helpfully poetic ways of describing them.

The octopus has the largest-known genome in the invertebrate world and more genes than humans. What other marvels will this ancient creature reveal?

Despite its reputation as a terrible killer, the beautiful and charismatic great white shark is less of a threat to you than your own toaster.

It’s been four decades since Congress approved the original Toxic Substances Control Act. Now, in a rare display of bipartisanship, both houses of Congress passed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, a long awaited overhaul of what is often referred to as TSCA.

Air travel has become increasingly irritating for most travelers in the past decade or so. Travelers might be facing one more irritant in the future: flights delayed or cancelled due to extreme heat.

What do you know about horseshoe crabs? Probably not much, right? But consider this: Their blood, aside from being an unusual shade of blue, has become an essential biomedical tool used worldwide.

The agreement between President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi could have profound impacts on the future of renewable energy in India and other countries.

Police reform is local, and you have more power in local government than anywhere else in the US electoral system.

There's a program in Philadelphia that helps inner-city kids deal with trauma and PTSD. What they teach the children can also help you deal with the tragic news this week.

Julia Nekessa Opoti hosts a radio show in Minneapolis called "Reflections of New Minnesotans." She says some immigrants she hears from on her show say they are reliving traumatic days they thought they had left behind.

Some local legislators are now questioning a successful 2002 ballot measure that curtailed bilingual education in the state.

On a trip to Scotland, Chuck Wexler was struck by the fact that police officers there don't carry guns. He wondered whether the police in the US could do the same. So he took a group of police chiefs on a trip to Scotland to learn more.

“It's war of past and future,” says the 26-year-old head of the customs house in Odessa, Ukraine. “A war against corruption, war against this old way of thinking, war against Soviet heritage, and war for a modern Ukraine.”

Seth Moulton was against the Iraq War but still four tours as a Marine Corps officer. Now a Democrat in Congress, Moulton offers his take on political leadership and war.

Many Salvadorans say they're harassed and worse by heavily armed police patrolling poor neighborhoods. But few dare to use the latest technology to hold security forces accountable.

The 90s series of rock festivals, known as The Tibetan Freedom Concert, was a result of a random encounter between a 23-year-old American activist and Adam Yauch.

The Olympics are a month away and there's real concern about security in Rio. Amnesty International just released an app to help people document gun violence.

There was a dispute over money. But instead of making him pay, they started to troll him.

Reverend Lee Wesley of the Community Bible Baptist Church is part of an interfaith group that’s calling for a broad and transparent investigation into the killing of Alton Sterling.

The 2014 police killing of Alex Nieto, a young Mexican American, sparked lawsuits and street protests, but little else. Artists in San Francisco have kept the case alive through a sold-out play.

Kids growing up in Canada used to grab some old hockey sticks, a tennis ball, and a couple of soda cans to mark out goals in the street, and play. Many Canadian cities now discourage or even ban street hockey as unsafe.

President Nicolas Maduro's government is not pushing for reform — it's continuing with policies that are left over from Hugo Chávez.

She was abducted while running for president in Colombia. Now Ingrid Betancourt sees an end to five decades of war in her country.

Meet C.W. Stoneking — an Australian who has put his own spin on the blues.

Pro-Russian teenagers in eastern Ukraine spend their weekends practicing for war and recruiting peers to their separatist cause.

Christine and Peter Brierley cannot forget the Iraq War, or forgive Tony Blair. The former prime minister lead a war charge that ended up killing their son, Shaun, a lance corporal who died serving in the war in 2003.

A year before he was one of 250 killed in last weekend's Baghdad bombing, Adel Al-Jaf said: "One day I'll leave Iraq and go to a place where people love dancing and they're not fighting it."

Giddes Chalamanda is a legend in Malawi. In one his biggest hits, he sings: "If I had enough money, I would go to America." It's finally happening.

Lesnoe Ozero puts an unusual spin on the traditional camp experience: Everything's done in Russian.

European players make the English Premier League great. There are 332 players in the top two divisions in England and Scotland. But Brexit could change all that, threatening to make the league not so premier.

A disagreement over the health affects of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, is leading to confusion and delay in the European Union.

Bengali American Sultana Begum knew the two Emory University students, and one UC-Berkeley student, who were killed by militants in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She says the Bengali presence at Emory is small, but representative of a diaspora with strong cultural and family ties to Bangladesh. And she worries that the secular quality of their country is being threatened.

ISIS didn't claim responsibility for Monday's bombing near the holy city of Medina, but that didn't stop Muslims from denouncing the group for crossing a line.

Unlike others, the filmmaker stayed in Iran for decades after the 1979 revolution, presenting a human, compassionate side of his homeland.

India has a severe shortage of toilets, something the government of Narendra Modi has pledged to address. Anoop Jain is already working on it. He's an American doctoral student who's building public toilets in one of the poorest states in India.

Dhammananda and her flock of 15 female monks are shunned by the all-male Buddhist hierarchy. But "that’s their problem,” she says.

Aki Kumar left his home in Mumbai to work as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. But then, Kumar discovered American blues and everything changed.

When Frank Hessenland joined Germany's Alternative für Deutschland, he saw it as a center-right political party. Then it moved far to the right. Even though he quit the party, he couldn't shake its far-right image.

On Friday, half a dozen young men stormed a cafe in Dhaka and brutally killed 20 people. They were from Bangladesh's elite society, had lived in the best neighborhoods, and were educated in the best schools.

Even without a kitchen in their cramped shelter cubicles, some refugees in Germany are able to cook traditional Middle Eastern delicacies during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The calls of Guillemots and terns and the crash of ocean waves surround two puffins nesting at the Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge in Maine. It is a remote spot, accessible only by boat, but you can watch the puffins close up via two special bird cams operated by the Audubon Society.

The Iraqi capital is no stranger to violence, but observers say the patience of the people is running out.

Nonviolent struggle played an important role in the founding of the United States. During the colonial era, between 1765 and 1775, there were three major campaigns of nonviolent resistance before war broke out.

Black Lives Matter demonstrators say they were protesting "anti-blackness" with a sit-in that stalled Pride Toronto.

As bigger productions head to the South African city, local actors are seeking out accent coaches and tuning into US soaps in order to sound American.